Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (Monarch Notes)

You have been under the watch of your cruel aunt, Mrs. Reed, as an orphan for quite some time. And the only person that gives you a finite amount of kindness when she can is their servant Bessie. But then, a certain incident can change your life forever. A certain fight with your malevolent cousin, John Reed. After this fight, her aunt sent her to stay locked in the red room where her uncle died. While isolated there with no one else she claims to have heard uncanny groans. Before you know it your wake up in the house of Mr. Lloyd, who advices Mrs. Reed to send you to school. Happily, you are sent away from your aunt and off to school, not knowing what the future holds. This is your life living as Jane, in the book Jane Eyre, beautifully written by Charlotte Bronte. In this book, Jane goes through numerous ways of living her life, from a student, into becoming a teacher, to accepting a job as a governess of a little girl by the name of Adèle, which leads her to make a decision which can impact her life forever. While Jane is teaching Adèle, she starts developing a secret love for Adèle's father Mr. Rochester. After spending some time with her, he in return begins to fall admire Jane. Mr. Rochester proposes to Jane, and Jane accepts puzzle-minded. But, a man by the name of Mr. Mason interrupts eagerly. Panting, he told the people gathered around that attend the wedding and the groom and bride themselves, that Mr. Rochester has a secret which now was revealed. He admits that the truth of this secret and shows them all. Shocked, Jane has two decisions to chose from. Her decision leads her to meet three siblings. She is taken in to stay with the three siblings Diana, Mary, and St. John, she finds a shocking truth. Which gives her two different choices, which can lead her in two different paths. The question is which one is she going to choose. Throughout this book, the suspense builds up as shocking secrets are revealed, hearts are attached, but then broken, leaving these characters broken hearted. The forgiveness of certain secrets that were kept a secret and should have been revealed. Also the forgiveness of minor fights between characters. This classical book, Jane Eyre, is an interesting read for everyone.

Contemporaries of Bronte's have called Jane Eyre an "anti-christian" novel. The novel, however, is full of biblical imagery. It is a story of God's influence on man's behavior I read this book as a requirement for an English Composition class. The story is enjoyable and tremendously uplifting. I would recommend it to any adult.

Jane Eyre is a timeless classic. This book combines great literature with the ever gripping universal theme of love. Bronte outdoes herself, as she passionately throws the reader into the life of a Victorian governess. The reader enters a world of heartbreak. The reader almost becomes Jane as she is neglected and mistreated by her aunt. One feels Jane's agony and desire for her master. We feel the pain as she leaves him upon discovering his wife. We feel her heart ripped open when she discovers the burnt down house. We rejoice when she and her now mamed lover are reunited. Whether male or female, whether in love or scorched by it, Jane Eyre captures the very essence of being human and experiencing love. Bronte does not speak of love, the reader does not merely read about it. Bronte immerses the reader into the experience of true love and all of the pains which come with it. Vicariously, through Jane, we delve into the matters of the heart--the only theme that truly makes a difference, and definitely composes great literature. Jane Eyre is a timeless classic.

Jane Eyre Book Review By Deborah Friedell Jane Eyre is the story of a "plain, small, and Quaker-like" governess who breaks through class barriers to win equal stature with the man she loves. She is a heroine not because she is beautiful and rich but because she has raw intelligence and compassion. In this classic piece of fiction, Charlotte Brontë showed a great command of the English language and proved to be a master storyteller. In Jane, Brontë created a character that is as multifaceted and as real as any living person I have ever known. Perhaps Jane seems real because she is -- her experiences mirror the author's. When the book begins, the ten-year-old orphaned Jane is in conflict with her aunt and cousins that raised her. After ten years of suffering at their hands she strikes back at them. Jane's aunt is unwilling to deal with her, and sends her to a charity school, the Lowood Institution. There, among great suffering, Jane becomes strong and learns about faith. After eight years at Lowood, she becomes the governess of Adéle, the French ward of Mr. Rochester a man cloaked in mystery and despair. Despite their twenty years age difference and their different castes they fall in love and plan to marry. At the marriage ceremony it is revealed that Rochester is already married to a Creole woman named Bertha, who Mr. Rochester keeps locked up in his home because she suffers from (what I believe to be) atypical general paresis, the consequence of a syphilitic infection. Jane runs away in despair, and for a time is homeless and starving. She is taken in by a clergyman and his two sisters. The clergyman, St. John Rivers, has a cold and insensitive nature that provides a stark contrast to Rochester's passion. Coincidentally (too coincidentally for this reader) when Jane inherits a legacy from an uncle it is discovered that the clergyman is Jane's cousin. This does not stop St. John from asking for Jane's hand in marriage and demanding that she accompany him as a missionary to India. Jane prays for guidance and hears Rochester calling her name. She travels back to him, and finds him blind and crippled due to a fire that Bertha had set, causing her death. All is forgiven; they marry and have one son. Jane receives a letter from St. John in India, saying that he is looking forward to his death and the rewards that come in heaven. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë created a timeless work of fiction. I am only a high school student, and have never been in love. However, I have trouble seeing anyone in love with Rochester. He is a proud man, bold, vindictive, impatient, eccentric, and untruthful. When he tries to seduce Jane he emanates a false sympathy for her, "You- poor and obscure, and small plain as you are- I entreat you to accept me for a husband." Charlotte Brontë is a good writer because she mak